Ancestry Dna Matches

When dna matches contradict family trees.

Ancestry dna matches.

Filtering matches by maternal or paternal side. As you investigate your matches you can find dna matches that you and a match have in common by clicking the shared matches tab. Ancestrydna member matching identifies other ancestrydna members who might be related to you. From any page on ancestry click the dna tab and select dna matches.

At a 4th cousin level the range of average shared dna overlaps with that of other relationships. The shared matches feature is one of the most helpful features available to you from your dna match profile page. To learn more about match categories visit the dna match categories page on the ancestry site. Ancestrydna can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of dna matches.

Click on a match to compare your dna with that match and see which regions and dna matches you share. Genealogists love finding cousins and more than ever we seek them out through dna testing. At times knowing how you re related who gave you the common dna segments can be frustrating. Compare your dna results to your matches dna results.

What will my results tell me. We compare your dna to the dna of every other person in the ancestrydna database and based on how your dna matches up we estimate how closely you re related whether you are siblings first cousins distant cousins or not related at all see figure 1. Don t be too concerned if a sibling s test labels a shared genetic relative with a different relationship. Contacting your dna matches can also help you discover how you re related to them.

As you can see from the centimorgan chart a centimorgan range of 575 to 1330 could mean the dna match is a first cousin half aunt or even a grandparent. If you ve taken an ancestrydna test the site s shared matches tool can help you home in on who made you. You can also review the public family trees created by your shared matches which may contain shared. Since ancestry dna and any other company can t really tell you how you are related to most of your dna matches they have to use the amount of shared dna in order to estimate your relationship.

Viewing the matches you share with another match. In your list of dna matches click the name or username of a match. To see your shared ethnicity click the ethnicity tab from the match s profile page. Using shared matches you can figure out how other dna matches might be related to you.

In this post you will learn how to find shared matches on ancestry dna and what it really means.